The relative effectiveness of the noncontiguous cartogram

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dc.contributor.authorKrauss, Mary Rebecca Duquetteen
dc.contributor.committeechairBrooker-Gross, Susan R.en
dc.contributor.committeememberCampbell, James B. Jr.en
dc.contributor.committeememberMorrill, Robert W.en
dc.contributor.committeememberMacEachren, Alan M.en
dc.contributor.departmentGeographyen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T21:50:47Zen
dc.date.adate2012-11-29en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T21:50:47Zen
dc.date.issued1989-12-05en
dc.date.rdate2012-11-29en
dc.date.sdate2012-11-29en
dc.description.abstractThe relative effectiveness of noncontiguous cartograms, in presenting data were tested over a continuum of tasks ranging from general to specific, using university students as subjects. A total of three tasks were examined, one task required subjects to judge cartograms showing a very general distribution, the second task required a moderate amount of information to be retrieved, and the third task required very specific information to be obtained from the cartogram. Two sets of non contiguous cartograms of the United States were used; one set had international and internal boundaries the second set had only international boundaries. In general students performed task one and two with a great deal of accuracy, proving non contiguous cartograms are a useful method of displaying geographic information. The third task was less successful than the first two, although this fact is not surprising, we learned that when displaying and trying to retrieve very specific kinds of information, the non contiguous cartogram is not a viable option.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Scienceen
dc.format.extentvii, 78 leavesen
dc.format.mediumBTDen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.otheretd-11292012-040104en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-11292012-040104/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/46046en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartLD5655.V855_1989.K739.pdfen
dc.relation.isformatofOCLC# 21788719en
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subject.lccLD5655.V855 1989.K739en
dc.subject.lcshMaps -- Evaluationen
dc.titleThe relative effectiveness of the noncontiguous cartogramen
dc.typeThesisen
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten
thesis.degree.disciplineGeographyen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Scienceen

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